According to Tiff's write-up, the film is a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in the Dominican Republic. Directed by Leticia Tonos Paniagua, and titled Cristo Rey, the drama follows the relationship between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he’s hired to protect. Cristo Rey stars James Saintil, Akari Endo, and Yasser Michelén, and will be making its World Premiere at Tiff next month. If director Paniagua's name is familiar, it may be because, last summer, we profiled her last film, La Hija Natural (Love Child), when it was set to be...
- 8/14/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Here’s the trailer for the new Dominican film La Hija Natural, directed by Leticia Tonos, which is currently making the film festival circuit in the U.S.
The film deals with a young woman, Maria, who after the sudden death of her mother, seeks out to find the father she never met. Turns out he’s an old bitter man, Joaquin, living in an old house on an abandoned banana plantation, where the both of them try to come to terms with each other, while haunted by the ghosts of the past. Looks intriguing to say the least.
The film deals with a young woman, Maria, who after the sudden death of her mother, seeks out to find the father she never met. Turns out he’s an old bitter man, Joaquin, living in an old house on an abandoned banana plantation, where the both of them try to come to terms with each other, while haunted by the ghosts of the past. Looks intriguing to say the least.
- 3/31/2011
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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